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Re: thanksgiving

Also off topically, cranberries got their name from a German/Dutch word for crane-berries, based on a fancied connection to the cranial shape of the flowers:

I suspect that the word for cranberries in Quebec, canneberges, is a eggcornical-poteau rosy corruption of cranberry. In the dictionaries, canneberge is “XVIII, origin unknown”. It would be transliterated as “shoreline cane”, which makes sense from its marshy habit. Who knows.